About a Sundance

Sonne, Geister und Schmerzen - Der Sonnentanz der Blackfoot

For a century the Piercing Sundance, a sacred ritual of the First Nation people to sacrifice one's
self to the Great Spirit, was forbidden in Canada. It was almost forgotten when the farmer Morris
Crow had the vision of bringing back this ritual of his ancestors. 29 years later this Sundance is an established sacred event for many of the First Nation People in the west of Canada. For the first time ever a camera was allowed to document a Sundance during which 16-year-old Morris Jr. got his initiation...